tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119049188372887649.post2478399158325276942..comments2020-06-07T10:17:03.661+02:00Comments on beforemario: Nintendo Space Fever (スペースフィーバー, 1979)Erik Voskuilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08635926073385633313noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119049188372887649.post-51090498398523884492015-05-23T08:44:02.337+02:002015-05-23T08:44:02.337+02:00Thanks for sharing Mark. Great to hear these are s...Thanks for sharing Mark. Great to hear these are still out there in public spaces, in working condition. Also agree that Galaxian is a more evolved and involving game.Erik Voskuilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08635926073385633313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119049188372887649.post-3098164982349814552015-05-22T14:35:22.820+02:002015-05-22T14:35:22.820+02:00Huh, I added a proper reply before but it doesn&#3...Huh, I added a proper reply before but it doesn&#39;t seem to have worked. Anyway, that report of its availability does explain one little mystery...<br /><br />There&#39;s a holiday village on the Welsh coast I&#39;m somewhat familiar with, whose pub has a sit down cocktail cabinet arcade game amongst the amusements on offer, perfect for trying to beat high scores at 10p a time whilst having a pint. Up until 2013 the game was a classic Galaxian model ...<br /><br />But then there were the chronic storms that battered the west of the UK, the sea wall collapsed, and the lower part of town including the pub was flooded out. Everything below a height of about 3 to 4 feet too heavy to easily throw up the stairs was destroyed by dirty seawater, including the game machine.<br /><br />So the next time we visited, they&#39;d replaced it with one of these. Was rather surprised - had never seen a Nintendo arcade cabinet before, didn&#39;t know they made them (even DK, I thought, was made under license by someone else), and was puzzled as to where they could have found it. Seems &quot;eBay, for cheap, so long as you could fix it up&quot; was the answer. Someone there must be handy with a soldering iron (having kept &#39;lax running all these years), because it works perfectly.<br /><br />It&#39;s not quite the same sitting down to (a very good clone of) Space Invaders rather than Galaxian, but it does make a change and the alternate modes offer a unique challenge at least...MarkPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119049188372887649.post-49504531310182310102013-09-09T08:47:30.132+02:002013-09-09T08:47:30.132+02:00I have a space fever and they are quite common
In...I have a space fever and they are quite common <br />In England in the last year I have seen 7 up for sale on eBay , although none of them were in working condition .<br />I do have a working example and its a cracking game <br />If you like space invaders your like this .alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09101059598396257091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119049188372887649.post-31255176858947657542013-01-15T03:44:21.331+01:002013-01-15T03:44:21.331+01:00Uh, seems like I made a Space Fever/Radar Scope ma...Uh, seems like I made a Space Fever/Radar Scope mash up in my head :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16971095632775434629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119049188372887649.post-25479440851054565812013-01-13T09:11:11.896+01:002013-01-13T09:11:11.896+01:00Almost true. Yes, Donkey Kong was created to repla...Almost true. Yes, Donkey Kong was created to replace a poorly selling game. But that game wasn&#39;t Space Fever, but the game Radar Scope, from end of 1980. When large stock of Radar Scope did not sell in the USA, many of those machines were converted to Donkey Kong.Erik Voskuilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08635926073385633313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119049188372887649.post-58539109347921163732013-01-13T05:13:07.366+01:002013-01-13T05:13:07.366+01:00This game changed videogames history... since it s...This game changed videogames history... since it sold very poorly, Nintendo had a lot of spare Space Fever arcades, and so they asked Miyamoto to design a game (his first one) with that same hardware to recycle the cabinets... and so Donkey Kong was born. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16971095632775434629noreply@blogger.com